Popular Book Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil Gaiman

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron

Books are the mirrors of the soul. – Virginia Woolf

There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley

Books are a uniquely personal journey that takes place within your mind and heart. – Unknown

Be careful of books, for they can be more dangerous than a sword. – G.R.R. Martin

A book is a friend that never lets you down. – Unknown

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles William Eliot

Popular Book Quotes part 2

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. – Alan Bennett

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Joseph Addison

Books may well be the only true magic. – Alice Hoffman

The best books are those that tell you what you already know. – George Orwell

A book is a gift you can open again and again. – Garrison Keillor

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. – Nora Ephron

Books have a way of making you feel less alone. – Neil Gaiman

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. – Benjamin Franklin

A good book is an event in my life. – Stendhal

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverb

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. – Elizabeth Hardwick

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. – Neil Gaiman

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. – René Descartes

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. – Alan Bennett

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Bradbury

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

Books may well be the only true magic. – Alice Hoffman

I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled with a warning: This could change your life. – Helen Exley

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. – Edward P. Morgan

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron

Books may be the most enjoyable fun you can have without committing a crime. – Emma Donoghue

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles William Eliot